I sort of worship Colbie Caillat’s “I Do” and I will tell you why.
It’s a great song per se but this is a piece of wonderful lyric writing
“Meet the family
How’s the family
Can we be a family”
In three lines she expressed the deepening of a relationship: it is all movement and it is, to be quite blunt, truer to the life people experience than anything on Arcade Fire’s grammy winning album. It digs under your skin because it has the resonance of a truth shared, of how people forge the deepest of their relationships.
This is what I admire in great songwriting: poetic truths.
I’ve been quoting Joe Steinhardt’s ” sometimes i don’t think I need anything more than a color TV and a mattress on the floor” for weeks now. Always loved the song any way but it has a huge truth invested in it. Later? “Sometimes I wonder if I’m even alive” is almost prophetic.
This is my problem with the new Bright Eyes: it sounds profound but it isn’t, it doesn’t express how people really feel or even how he does. Conor once wtote : “Sorrow gets too heavy and joy it tends to hold you, the fear it will eventually depart”. An aphorism worth every single word on his newbie. Musically, Key acts as if it has a brain in its head, but lyrically it is bullshit. The songs are there but…
Another really, really great lyric? “They told me everything was guaranteed, somebody somewhere must have lied to me”. SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE MUST HAVE LIED TO ME??? Forget Costello’s shotgun wedding text, and just look at the words. It is like scripture… I want it on my tombstone!!! Sure he sucks now, but he wrote that.
I know you have high art, serious rock stuff like AF and Radiohead but it misses the point.
Did you read Alyson’s Ted Leo post the other day. Watch the video for “Anarchy In The UK” -they DOUBLE BACK TO CATCH “NO DOGSBODY”!!!!!!!!!!!
Meet the family
How’s the family
Can we be a family.
Hey Wheels? Thunk?
Comments are closed.